Warning: This isn't even the actual image that's about to ruin your entire year. This is just a placeholder to lull you in a false sense of calm before the storm of this man's horrifying ingrown hair. May god help us all.»12/29/14 10:00pm 12/29/14 10:00pm

Ever since Star Wars, the special effects industry has taken us to amazing new worlds and recharged our sense of wonder. It's also grossed us the frak out. Exploding heads, severed limbs, strange mutilations... Here are the 20 most disgusting special effects of all time. Warning: NSFW!»11/27/14 1:49pm 11/27/14 1:49pm

Happy Halloween, people! Tonight is the night — so paint on the makeup and get out your lattes and brooms, you Basic Witch. Here are the most jaw-dropping Halloween costumes we've found posted on the Internet this year.»10/31/14 4:39pm 10/31/14 4:39pm

Hellraiser was made for under $1 million, but wound up becoming one of the most significant horror movies of all time. And yet, the more you learn about this film's production, the more of a miracle it seems. Here are all the strangest facts you need to know about the making of Hellraiser. »10/24/14 5:49pm 10/24/14 5:49pm

What were your major accomplishments at 14? Mine was getting my locker moved closer to my best friend, Alexa (because we had important INXS-related notes to share with each other, OK?) For most teens it's getting straight A's or winning a debate tournament. But none of that was good enough for 14-year-old Emily… »9/09/14 9:30pm 9/09/14 9:30pm

Extremely important announcement if you buy Christmas gifts for teens and your goal is to freak them the hell out: R.L. Stine is bringing back his "Fear Street" series, to scare the pants off a new generation of young adult readers. He's writing six more, starting with Party Games, which drops in late September: »8/26/14 12:00pm 8/26/14 12:00pm

A 16-year-old girl from Nagasaki prefecture has been arrested for allegedly murdering, decapitating, and dismembering her 15-year-0ld friend and classmate. That whooshing sound you hear is 4 million aspiring horror screenwriters firing up their laptops. »7/28/14 3:00pm 7/28/14 3:00pm

Oh holy hell—Emily Carroll's horror comic collection Through The Woods is so freaking spooky. We absolutely inhaled this book when we got it in our hands. Each little horror comic is so creepy and absolutely gorgeous. It's Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark kinds of fun. And we have an exclusive scary story excerpt… »7/17/14 4:49pm 7/17/14 4:49pm

True Hollywood Reporter has just released an exclusive clip of the new, Drew Barrymore-produced horror flick Animal, which stars none other than glorious paw-tattooed rapper Eve (and some other people)! »3/28/14 2:45pm 3/28/14 2:45pm

I love adorable kitty-cats as much as the next non-monster, but, as the poets say: "Just because you love something doesn't mean it can't deliver a necrotic puncture wound that will cause your extremities to rot off!" A new study on the dangers of cat bites found that, while dog bites might be more crushing and… »2/13/14 3:50pm 2/13/14 3:50pm

Sometimes while the mind is ticking away, it comes up with absurd terrors that are unlikely or even impossible. But that doesn't make them any less frightening. Deep Dark Fears pulls back the curtains on the strange personal fears we think no one else knows about. »1/24/14 1:59pm 1/24/14 1:59pm

Growing up can be a bit of a bloodbath for everyone, regardless of gender. And when it comes to how the actual gory details of the process are portrayed on film, young female characters don't often get the same freedom to explore the dark side of the process that young men do, unless you happen to be watching a… »10/15/13 6:45pm 10/15/13 6:45pm

The mystical pregnancy is one of the most overused tropes in science fiction and fantasy — and now, we've seen this idea taken to its most ludicrous extreme, in the new Lifetime show Witches of East End. Watch the magical self-inflating belly for yourself, below. »10/07/13 9:33pm 10/07/13 9:33pm

Dude. I'm so glad I'm not hot enough to get murdered by hell-ghosts in a forest. Evil Dead is a movie about hot people—real talk, mostly ladies—getting murdered by hell-ghosts in a forest, and if you can't idea-map your way to this conclusion, OH MY GOD GETTING MURDERED BY HELL-GHOSTS IN A FOREST SUCKS. In case you're… »4/05/13 5:30pm 4/05/13 5:30pm

Perhaps you naively believed that Mrs. Doubtfire was a charming family film about a father's devotion to his children? Well think again. It's actually a terrifying horror movie about a psycho who terrorizes a woman and her kids, as this hilariously frightening recut proves. Not since The Hand That Rocks the Cradle has… »6/07/12 10:00pm 6/07/12 10:00pm